Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-18


year. The commissioners court shall
appoint three persons to hold such cleo
ton, and shall make the return OF said
election within five days after election to
the county superintendent, and If NO cleo
ton is held the county superintendent
shall at once appoint three trustees for
said districts for ensuing year. All
persons living in the district quail
fed to vote for state and
county officers shall be entitled to vote at
said election. No person shall be eligible
to serve as a school trustee who cannot
read snd write.
Sec. 40. The scholastic census of each
county shall be taken by the county su-
perintendent, aided by the district trus-
lees in their respective districts, of all
children in each district between the ages
of eight and sixteen years, giving name,
age, color, sex, name Of parent or gusr-
dian, and such other data as may be re-
quired bv the state superintendent. The
county superintendent shall by the first
Monday in July of each year aggregate
the whole number of children of scholas-
tic age in the county, and make an ab-
stract in duplicate thereof, one to be filed
with the county CLERK, and the other to
be forwarded to the state superintendent.
Sec. IL. Children within the scholastic
age belonging to district lying on q
county line may be transferred, for con-
veEience of access, to an adjoining dis
tIiCt in another county. Application for
such transfer must be made before the
school fund is apportioned by the county
superintendent. The pro rata share of the
school fund of the transferred children
shall be held by the county treasurer and
paid TO the county treasurer OF the county
TO which the children were transferred on
the order of the county superintendent of
the county from which the children were
transferred.
Sec. ~. The county superintendent
may, if it shall seem 10 him necessary, at
any time before he apportions the school
fund among the several districts, trans
fer child from one district to another in
the same county, and, in every such case,
he shall transfer the pro rata share of
such child in the school fund to the dis
trio in which said child shall be taught;
provided, that children WITHIN the scho-
lastic age who have not attended any pub
lie school in the state during the current
scholastic year, shall never be debarred
from attending public school in Any dis
trict in which such children shall have &C
quired residence.
Sec. 40. The county commissioners
court of each county shall on or before
the first Monday is July following escn
regular session of the legislature n0mi-
nate to tie state superintendent some
person of educational attainments, good
character and executive ability, and q
qualltisd voter in said county,
to be county superintendent. Such
nomination snail in all cases be
subject TO the approval of the superin-
tenGent of pubic instruction. and il no
nomination be made in any county at CT
before the time fixed by law, the super
intendent of public instruction shall APP
puiIt superintendent for said county.
The county superintendent shall hold Of
flee for two years or until his successor
shall be appointed and qualified. lie
shall have, under the direction of the
state superintendent, the immediate su-
pervision of all matters pertaining to
public education in his county. He shall
confer with and counsel teachers and
trustees, visit and examine schools, de-
liver lectures on topics calculated to ex-
cite an interest in public education, or
secure some one tO do SO. He shall Or
ganize and hold teachers institutes
monthly, and shall approve all vouchers
against the school fund of his county.
He shall approve ali contracts between
teachers and trustees. He shall discharge
such other duties as may be prescribed
by the state superintendent. He shall
distribute all school blanks and books to
the officers and teachers of the public
schools. He shall make such reports to
the state superintendent as may be re-
quired by that officer; provided, that in
considering whether he will approve 3
contract between teacher and trustees
he shall be authorized to consider the
amount of So airy promised the teacher.
Sec. "A. The county superintendent shall
give bond in the sum Of $1,000, to be
approved y the coupty commissioners
court and filed with the county clerk,
said bond to be made payable TO the
county commissioners court aud their
successors in office in trust for the perma-
nent county school fund, and conditioned
for the faithful performance of his duties.
H. shall also take the oath of office pre-
scribed by the constitution.
Sec. 45. The county superintendent
Suall lSSSINC do COMPENSATION pei
centum on the amount apportioned from
the school fund to the support of the pub
lie schools in the county, and 10 per cent.
on the salary thus allowed may be added
thereto for postage, stationery and print
ing expenses connected with the admins
tratiOn of the school law. Said compen-
sation herein authorized shall be paid 20
the county superintendent by the county
treasurer out oil the public school fund
upon the approval of his voucher by the
commissioners court and the superin-
tendent of public instruction.; provided,
that the salary paid to county superin-
tendent from the state free school fund
shall in no case exceed $1,000 per annum.
But the commissioners court may allow
to the county superintendent, from the
permanent county school fund, an addi-
tlonal amount not to exceed 20 per cent.
of the salary derived from the state school
fund.
Sec. &c. The county superintendent,
upon receipt of the certificate issued by
the board OF education for the state fund
belonging to his county, Shall add there
to the county fund, less the amount al
lowed, if any, as his additional compen-
sation, if any, and deduct the amount
estimated as his compensation, and the
commissions of the treasurer and any
other lawful expenses against said funds,
and shall apportion the remainder to the
several school districts as per scholastic
census.
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